Mombasa's Baus Taka app offers users a way to have waste collected, recycled and to earn money from it. But, challenges remain.
16/04/2024
Large corporations dominate the provision of digital services in agriculture. However, open-source platform LiteFarm focuses on cooperation in making agriculture more sustainable.
10/04/2024
With SUSKULT, plants don't need soil - they're fed by sewage treatment plants. This hydroponic system is breaking completely new ground.
08/04/2024
Electronic waste is not only resource intensive, but, recycling it is also inefficient. Could this common food byproduct improve the process, and is this really the best solution, after all?
27/03/2024
Inefficient sorting means 25 percent of materials end up wrongly in landfills. AI is increasingly helping recycling centres ensure everything ends up where it belongs.
29/11/2023
The CUBE in Dresden proves that carbon concrete is an exciting building material for a successful building turnaround.
27/09/2023
The environmental impact of construction waste is diverse and abundant. Ecosystem destruction, natural resource consumption, pollution creation – it has all the hallmarks of a bonafide ecological menace. In fact, the construction industry accounts…
30/08/2023
Living walls are a practical, and beautiful, way of adding greenery and lowering heating emissions in our cities. Here's how technology could be used to aid them.
28/08/2023
What if we could upcycle agricultural waste into a cheap, sustainable and biodegradable building material? Mycelium shows it's possible.
09/08/2023
In a recent experiment conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley, a robot gardener performed just as well as its human counterpart while using significantly less water.
28/06/2023
Data centres consume huge amounts of energy - and generate a lot of heat in the process. In Sweden, thousands of households are already heated with server heat - how does waste heat utilisation get a headwind elsewhere as well?
01/05/2023
A new study has explored the feasibility of large scale overhead power line trucking.
26/04/2023
